oa La physiognomonie dans l’Antiquité grecque

Physiognomonics appears in Babylonia, about four thousand years ago. But the first treatises of physiognomonics belong to the Greco-roman literature: Physiognomonics of the pseudo-Aristotle and the Treatise of Physiognomonics of a latin Anonymous from the IVth century. One finds nevertheless traces of physiognomonics in the poems of Homer. The ancients have attributed the origin of that science to Pythagoras or to Hippocrates. Physiognominics, fouded on three methods, did not disappear at the end of Antiquity: in 1781, Lavater wrote an important book Essai sur la physiognomonie.